Stephen Downes

This is a nice, detailed and not-so-short article asking why telephone and calculator keypads are organized differently (the telephone has 1-2-3 as the top row, the calculator 7-8-9 as the top row. It's also a great object lesson in how the design of digital environments we use today is based on a long history of similar devices from the pre-digital world, and how usability is defined into our tools over the years. Via OSNews, Apostolos K.